The Red Fairy Book, The Three Dwarfs, part 3, sentence 23
‘But we will make this trial since it must be so.’
Who acts: we · What happens: make · To what, where: trial
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Dwarfs, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 make | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 make | cc |
| 3 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 make | nsubj |
| 4 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 make | aux |
| 5 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 trial | det |
| 7 | trial | trial | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 make | obj |
| 8 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 11 be | mark |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 be | nsubj |
| 10 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 be | aux |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 make | advcl |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 be | advmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 make | punct |
| 14 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | future | we | this trial | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trial=Product |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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